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Rethinking Retirement in the 21st Century
Conclusion In the 21st century, many seniors are not retiring from something. Instead, retirement is an opportunity for reinventing, reimagining and reconnecting to one's self, family, friends and community. Robert Browning once wrote, "Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be." By investing in your physical, mental and financial health today, you can help ensure that your best years are just ahead. Rear Admiral Susan Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.A. (ret.) is the Public Health Editor of The Huffington Post. She is a Senior Fellow in Health Policy at New America and a Clinical Professor at Tufts and Georgetown University Sc...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 1, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Air pollution linked to silent strokes
Conclusion This cross-sectional study has suggested a link between exposure to small particles in the air (one form of pollution) and the presence of "silent stroke" in older adults – small areas of damage to the brain tissue that are not severe enough to cause obvious symptoms. There are a number of limitations to be aware of when assessing the results of this study: While there was an association between particulate matter in the air and total brain volume, this was no longer statistically significant after taking into account whether people have conditions such as high blood pressure, which can also affec...
Source: NHS News Feed - April 24, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Lifestyle/exercise Neurology Source Type: news

Associations between socio-economic status and dietary patterns in US black and white adults.
Abstract Socio-economic status (SES) has been associated with measures of diet quality; however, such measures have not directly captured overall eating practices in individuals. Based on the factor analysis of fifty-six food groups from FFQ, associations between patterns of food consumption and SES were examined in a nationwide sample of 17 062 black (34·6 %) and white participants (age >45 years) from the REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) study. Logistic regression models adjusted for age, sex, racial group and geographic region were used to examine adherence to five emergen...
Source: The British Journal of Nutrition - April 14, 2015 Category: Nutrition Authors: Kell KP, Judd SE, Pearson KE, Shikany JM, Fernández JR Tags: Br J Nutr Source Type: research

Transient ischemic attacks in post-menopausal women with history of migraines have lower risk for subsequent ischemic strokes (P2.306)
CONCLUSIONS: The risk of ischemic stroke is lower following TIA in women with migraine history (compared with those without migraine) suggesting potentially different pathophysiology in such women.Disclosure: Dr. Rahman has nothing to disclose. Dr. Malik has nothing to disclose. Dr. Thomas has nothing to disclose. Dr. Qureshi has nothing to disclose.
Source: Neurology - April 8, 2015 Category: Neurology Authors: Rahman, H., Malik, A., Thomas, A., Qureshi, A. Tags: Cerebrovascular Disease and Interventional Neurology: Education and TIA Source Type: research

Long-term disability after lacunar stroke: Secondary prevention of small subcortical strokes
Conclusions: In lacunar stroke patients, older age was associated with worsening long-term disability, even without recurrence. Worse long-term function was associated with diabetes, cognitive status, and prior stroke, and regional differences may be attributable to variations in health care delivery or scale interpretation.
Source: Neurology - March 9, 2015 Category: Neurology Authors: Dhamoon, M. S., McClure, L. A., White, C. L., Lakshminarayan, K., Benavente, O. R., Elkind, M. S. V., On behalf of the SPS3 Investigators Tags: All Cerebrovascular disease/Stroke, All Rehabilitation, All epidemiology ARTICLE Source Type: research

The association of atopy with incidence of ischemic heart disease, stroke, and diabetes
Abstract Allergy is a systemic inflammatory disease that could theoretically affect the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes through inflammatory pathways or mast cell-induced coronary spasm. Whether allergy is associated with an increased risk of CVD and diabetes is largely unknown. We investigated the association between atopy as assessed by IgE sensitization, a well-accepted biomarker of allergy, and incidence of ischemic heart disease, stroke, and diabetes in five Danish population-based cohorts. A total of 14,849 participants were included in the study. Atopy was defined as serum-specific IgE po...
Source: Endocrine - March 1, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: research

Longer sleep linked to stroke
Conclusion This cohort study found that, overall, people who sleep for more than eight hours have a 46% increased risk of stroke. When analysed separately, there was no statistically significant association for men, but a much higher increased risk for women, of 80%. A major strength of the study is the number of potential confounding factors that the researchers tried to account for, including many cardiovascular risk factors. However, it did not account for other illnesses such as sleep apnoea or cancer, which may have had an effect on the amount of sleep and risk of stroke. In addition, the study is reliant on the i...
Source: NHS News Feed - February 26, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Lifestyle/exercise Neurology Older people Source Type: news

Association between C reactive protein level and depressive symptoms in an elderly Korean population: Korean Social Life, Health and Aging Project
Conclusions Our findings suggest that elevated CRP levels are independently associated with the presence of depressive symptoms in elderly Korean men.
Source: BMJ Open - February 23, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Song, B. M., Lee, J.-M., Choi, W., Youm, Y., Chu, S. H., Park, Y.-R., Kim, H. C. Tags: Open access, Epidemiology, Geriatric medicine, Public health Research Source Type: research

HRT increases ovarian cancer risk by small amount
Conclusion This systematic review and meta-analysis showed that ovarian cancer risk was significantly increased in current HRT users, even in those with less than five years of HRT use (the average was three years). In ex-users, risks decreased the longer ago HRT use had stopped, but risks during the first few years after stopping remained significant. Furthermore, about a decade after stopping, long-duration hormone therapy use (average nine years of HRT use), there still seemed to be a small excess risk. The review has a few limitations, however. The main one is that the review was heavily influenced by just two of t...
Source: NHS News Feed - February 13, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cancer Medication Older people Source Type: news

Strenuous jogging 'as bad as doing no exercise' claim
Conclusion This study has suggested that light to moderate jogging could be associated with living longer compared with being sedentary, but strenuous jogging might not be. Due to the fact that this data was collected prospectively, there are considerable limitations. The main limitation is that although the total number of joggers was quite high (around 1,000), once these joggers were split up by duration, frequency and pace of jogging, some of the individual groups were much smaller. This was particularly the case in the most active jogging categories (those who jogged more often, for longer, and at a higher pace). This ...
Source: NHS News Feed - February 3, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Heart/lungs Lifestyle/exercise Source Type: news

Does moderate boozing reduce heart failure risk?
Conclusion This study suggests drinking up to about 12 UK units a week is associated with a lower risk of heart failure in men compared with never drinking alcohol. There was a similar result for women, but the results were not as robust and did not rule out the possibility of there being no difference. The study benefits from its large size (more than 14,000 people) and the fact it collected its data prospectively over a long period of time. However, studying the impact of alcohol on outcomes is fraught with difficulty. These difficulties include people not being entirely sure what a "drink" or a "unit&q...
Source: NHS News Feed - January 21, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Heart/lungs Food/diet Source Type: news

Risk of warfarin-associated intracerebral haemorrhage after ischaemic stroke is low and unchanged during the 2000s
Commentary on: Asberg A, Erisksson M, Henriksson KM, et al.. Warfarin-associated intracerebral hemorrhage after ischemic stroke. Stroke 2014;45:2118–20. Context Since its isolation during the early half of the 20th century from the mouldy hay responsible for ‘sweet clover disease’ in cattle, warfarin has become the most widely used oral anticoagulant.1 Indications include atrial fibrillation (AF), mechanical prosthetic valves and venous thromboembolism treatment.2 Warfarin reduces stroke risk in patients with AF by nearly two-thirds; AF accounts for 20% of ischaemic strokes, which tend to be more severe t...
Source: Evidence-Based Medicine - January 21, 2015 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Ruland, S., Biller, J. Tags: Epidemiologic studies, Drugs: cardiovascular system, Stroke, Hypertension, Alcohol-related disorders, Drugs misuse (including addiction), Arrhythmias, Alcohol, Health education Aetiology/Harm Source Type: research

Mendelian randomisation meta-analysis sheds doubt on protective associations between 'moderate' alcohol consumption and coronary heart disease
Commentary on: Holmes M, Dale C, Zuccolo L, et al.. Association between alcohol and cardiovascular disease: Mendelian randomisation analysis based on individual participant data. BMJ 2014;349:g4164. Context A protective association between low-dose alcohol and risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) has been suggested by meta-analyses of observational studies and experimental studies. Observational studies are, however, vulnerable to residual confounding and selection bias. Compared with observational studies, the Mendelian randomisation (MR) approach can mitigate confounding, is immune to reverse causation, and is consistent...
Source: Evidence-Based Medicine - January 21, 2015 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Chikritzhs, T. N., Naimi, T. S., Stockwell, T. R., Liang, W. Tags: Genetics, Drugs: cardiovascular system, Stroke, Hypertension, Ischaemic heart disease, Alcohol, Health education Aetiology/Harm Source Type: research

Does moderate drinking reduce heart failure risk?
Conclusion This study suggests drinking up to about 12 UK units a week is associated with a lower risk of heart failure in men compared with never drinking alcohol. There was a similar result for women, but the results were not as robust and did not rule out the possibility of there being no difference. The study benefits from its large size (more than 14,000 people) and the fact it collected its data prospectively over a long period of time. However, studying the impact of alcohol on outcomes is fraught with difficulty. These difficulties include people not being entirely sure what a "drink" or a "unit&q...
Source: NHS News Feed - January 20, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Heart/lungs Food/diet Source Type: news

The relationship between fermented food intake and mortality risk in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition-Netherlands cohort.
In conclusion, the present study provides no strong evidence that intake of fermented foods, particularly fermented dairy foods, is associated with mortality. PMID: 25599866 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The British Journal of Nutrition - January 20, 2015 Category: Nutrition Authors: Praagman J, Dalmeijer GW, van der Schouw YT, Soedamah-Muthu SS, Monique Verschuren WM, Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita H, Geleijnse JM, Beulens JW Tags: Br J Nutr Source Type: research